#sit

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. ↗

— William F. Buckley

#diversity #political-philosophy #democracy

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#independent-thought #reading #independence

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#questions

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. ↗

— Tony Schwartz

#certainty #curiosity #growing #learning #letting-go

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#library #university #universe

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#greed #insight #understanding #insight

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #faith #inspiration #inspirational #metaphysics

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. ↗

— Holly Black

#curiosity #curious #satisfaction #wisdom #satisfaction

Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#satisfaction

Affliction is a good man's shining time. ↗

— Edward Young

#character #hard-times #perseverance #trials #perseverance